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It was sort of ambitious for people to think they'd be on reddit with the same account in 20 years
I don't think so, reddit was so dominant that had they simply not decided to anger all their power users, we'd all still be on there like nothing had changed. A good platform has staying power, I've been on Steam for 16 years and I have no plans of bailing on it because it's simply the best gaming platform I've ever used. It's not game lock-in or anything, most of my games I could buy elsewhere or pirate, I just like having the features and all these other ones popping up like GOG Galaxy still aren't overtaking it despite the good PR.
Capitalism killed it. That's how things go. They are great for a while then get too big and have to keep growing for some reason. The pursuit of perpetual growth ruins everything
aka the great enshittification of '23
Thats how we gonna call this era arent we?
Gonna be honest, I first heard "enshittification" when Reddit announced the API pricing, and now I hear it everywhere for everything, and I hate it.
It's like when a child learns a new word and wont stop using it.
It was a thing before reddit. Twitter and TikTok started it
This is exactly it, now that the economy is slowing down, reddit is just one of many tech startups which whose investors now require actual returns instead of just promises of endless growth.
Agreed. Have been on Steam for almost 19 years. Nothing has really degraded as far as the service goes, and Valve's approach to listening to community feedback is good. We've saw controversy, mainly Paid Mods and CS:GO gambling, both have been taken care of for the most part due to community pushback. I can't think of a controversy that has made me want to leave the service though. With Reddit, it was a slow decline to its death on July 1st.
Not gonna lie, it was the will Reddit fiasco that has me concerned about my game library when Gabe goes
When I buy a game I now always look first if there's a DRM-free version on GOG
I'm imaginging you emulating a bunch of retro win10 games on your future-pc 30 years from now. Smart way of doing it though: why pay of the DRM version when you can actually own the game?
This is easily the main concern when it comes to Steam. A strong leadership can largely mitigate the ill effects of capitalism, but once said leadership goes away, it becomes a profiteering free-for-all.
Yahoo answers held on for decades after it was relevant, I'm sure Reddit will be around in 15 years.
Sadly, Remindbot will be reminding a ghost town populated only by other bots
There won't be any bots if they have to pay eyewatering amounts for API access.
It'll be a ghost town, plus u/spez.
Even Digg is still around these days
Lol
It was Huffman. It was inevitable.
I mean, I made it 12...
I suppose I still have an account from 2009 that I don’t ever use. I went through at least two dozen others that I deleted since then though.
I was on for 14.
But when was the RemindMe bot created?
17 years was pretty close to that...
I'm still with my old yahoo account, because it is tied with my tumblr account, and sad to say my tumblr is much older than my first reddit account, which is older than the digg migration. I'd revive yahoo groups in a heartbeat if it is revived with the same feature set. There's a certain kind of group discussion it really does well for that forums don't really capture.
SAME, why did Yahoo shut down, there were so many incredible things to it (but I like forums, too)
Edit: I'm dumb and misspoke, Yahoo itself didn't shut down but a lot of things in it did